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LARGE ARCHIVE of Bellingrath MORSE FAMILY GENEALOGY - includes:

Ephemera
Essay "Miss Bessie - A Life Story of Bessie Mae Morse, former member of the St. Francis Street Methodist Church, and WIFE of Walter D. Bellingrath" by Helen Louise Depuy, 1992
Personal Letters, some in original envelopes with stamps. Some reference grave sites and cemeteries, marriages, children, deaths, homesites and more
Family Trees, going back to 1800's !!
Documents
Photos
Newspaper Clippings
Bellingrath Gardens & Home Souvenir Photo Book, 1998 Pre-Katrina photos

File containing original letters and correspondence, family trees, cards, and original photographs. Latest date appears to be about 1999. Appears to be collected and compiled by Mrs. Helen L. Depuy of Mobile, Alabama. Regards: Bessie Mae Morse Bellingrath, Walter B. Bellingrath (of Bellingrath Gardens), The Sewell Walker Morse family of Alabama and others. Family trees go back to 1800's, with lots of personal notations. Church records and grave/cemetery information. Very interesting.

Includes hardcover SIGNED book "MR. BELL - A Life Story of Walter D. Bellingrath" by Howard Barney, published by The Bellingrath-Morse Foundation of Mobile, Alabama (1979)

Inscription on first page by book's author: "For Harold Dempsey, one who also shares interesting memories of Mr. Bell - Howard Barney 1/20/83" and
Inscription on inside front cover "Aug 4, 2004 - To Tom on his birthday - So much of Mr. Bellingrath's Possessions will live on and on is due to you having them - Mona (Mimi)" (* Believe this is Thomas D. Morse, addressed in many of the letters)

Also includes paperback version of same book published in 2015.